“Another one bites the dust in San Francisco,” said pastry chef Cheryl Storms, who owned the sister businesses — one a restaurant, the other a pastry shop — with partner Chris Beerman. …
In what’s becoming a familiar refrain for Bay Area restaurateurs, Storms cited a number of other factors that led to the demise of the restaurant and bakery, including increases in the minimum wage (set to rise to $14 an hour in July) and, in San Francisco, city-mandated employer health care spending.